On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 21:54 +0800, RICAFORT ALFREDO wrote: > I wanted to access my emails in Evolution. My 'Receiving Email' > setting is '...folders manage by Evolution'. As I know this means that > my emails are stored in Maildir format.
You know that? Because, it depends. > Now I wanted to access these emails > through IMAP, in particular using dovecot. Setup a Dovecot server, create an account on the server, setup an IMAP account in Evolution, and then you can just drag-n-drop them to the server account. Access them from there from then on. > Would there be a problem if I just point my > 'mail_location=~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local'? I don't plan to > send or delete emails through IMAP. I just need to read them. It might work I suppose. *If* your *version* of Evolution and your *version* of Dovecot agree *exactly* on the mail format. Note that you will still have concurrency issues as reading messages via IMAP [just *READING* them] potentially changes the meta-data. If it works - good. If it does not work, including deleting or scrambling your data, it is *NOT* the fault of Evolution. You are doing something this is non-standard and generally a bad idea. If you want to access messages via IMAP - then just use IMAP. Performance is very good. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
